Material written, drawn and printed by Barry Flanagan including notes on his thoughts and for his correspondence, sketches for works, samples and proofs for prints, sculpture plans and templates and laser and rubber stamp drawings.

Photographs, negatives, slides, transparencies, scans and print-out images. Barry Flanagan's original files and, where evident, series have been left in tact and categorised, as far as possible, according to function, subject or type.

Volumes containing sketches, notes, artist's statements and draft letters and faxes in pencil and pen relating to personal and professional matters, some of which include related inserts such as business cards. Many have pages torn out and contain inserted loose sheets.

Barry Flanagan started to print 'funds' in 1969. He used his own printed notes and postal orders numbered and authenticated with a thumb print. They were given in lieu of cash to collaborators and assistants including Charles Harrison, Lucy Lippard, Cheryl Potter, Andrew Dipper and Anthony Stokes. Such notes also featured in works including Thumb Prints, Mirror Prints, Money, 1972. These papers include copies of these notes, with related papers and correspondence.

Date Range

1991

Scope and Content

Sketches and notes in pencil, black pen and blue colouring pencil.

Concrete poetry sketches. - reminiscent of earlier work. Thoughts and musings on authorship within artwork. Sketch of a house on a filofax page made by another. Male portrait drawings. Musings on social dressing. Musings on parenthood with small leaping hare motif drawing.